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have a seat thank you so good to be here
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tonight who's excited yeah school
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holidays for some of us for others it's
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torture but so good that you've come out
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tonight and I just want to share
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something that's kind of been on my
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heart for a little bit and it's funny
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because today my first point has been
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preached a couple of times already so in
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Brazil preach part of it this morning
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thank you in in Communion and pastor
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been during the service so I really
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think it's it's something that God
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really wants to communicate to us today
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so I'm just going to jump straight in if
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you've got your Bibles we're going to go
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to the book of first Timothy
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first Timothy chapter 1 first Timothy
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chapter 1 I promise I'm not going to go
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long tonight because if the ice-creams
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come out I know none of us want to have
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Maxo bond soup
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we don't want it Melton and so we want
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to have it while it's still good but
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first Timothy chapter 1 and I'm going to
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read from verse 18 and 19 and this is
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the Apostle Paul speaking to his protege
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Timothy and he says Timothy my son I am
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giving you this command in keeping with
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the prophecies once made about you so
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that by recalling them you may fight the
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battle well holding on to faith and a
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good conscience which some have rejected
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and so have suffered shipwreck with
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regard to the faith Apostle Paul is
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phenomenal and only he can use
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picturesque language like this he is
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he's been mentoring a young pastor by
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the name of Timothy encouraging him so
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when you read these the books to Timothy
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you'll hear things like Timothy God has
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not given you a spirit of fear but of
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love power and a sound mind Timothy
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don't let anyone look down on you
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because of your age but set an example
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for all believers in life in love in
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purity and in speech so he's encouraging
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him here in the context is that there
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are other leaders that have been
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preaching false doctrines and preaching
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things falsehoods and fallacies and he's
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trying to correct Timothy and he's
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saying you've actually got a fight to
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declare the right thing because these
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people that are trying to introduce
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these things that are not the gospel are
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they've ended up shipwrecked and you
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know what a shipwreck is don't you it's
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a vessel that is ineffective and so we
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are called vessels the Bible says that
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we have this treasure in earthen vessels
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and so the Apostle Paul is saying look
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you need to fight so that this doesn't
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happen to you or anyone that you are
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leading because you will either run
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aground or you will sink to the bottom
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either way you will be ineffective you
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will become like a cautionary tale of
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how not to live the Christian life and
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so it sits with this thought that I
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really want to look at this subject of
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fight see I don't even know the title of
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my message
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the fight of your life the fight of your
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life because there are certain things
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that are actually worth fighting for
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there are certain things that are
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actually worth fighting for and one of
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them is your faith one of them is your
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faith you know we we know that Jesus won
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the victory for us we we know that but
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there are certain things that we must
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contend with we must fight otherwise
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those things will shipwreck us amen so
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why don't you pray with me and we'll get
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stuck into it father I thank you for
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your word I thank you Lord God that
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tonight you'll not just bring revelation
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but transformation speak to us Holy
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Spirit give us receptive hearts clean
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keen minds Lord God to hear what you
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were saying and I just thank you Lord
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God that everyone who hears your word
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tonight Lord God that the seed will fall
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on good soil and it will change them
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forever and we would ask this in Jesus
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name in Jesus name when I was 11 years
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old something happened to me that was
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probably the peak of
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my life up until then but looking back
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now I can say that beyond becoming a
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Christian accepting Jesus getting
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married to Michelle and having our two
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kids this is probably the next thing
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that's right up there in my top five and
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it happened just one ordinary Saturday
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afternoon I was 11 years old I was at
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home I had a bit of downtime I've done
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all my chores and I'm sitting in the
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lounge room watching TV when all of a
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sudden there's a beep a car horn outside
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and I have a look at the through the
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window and I recognize it's my auntie's
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car that has just driven down our
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driveway and I thought are cool it's my
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art and she gets out but then all of a
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sudden my heart stopped when out of the
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passenger side stepped this mammoth
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human being that I had only ever seen on
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TV he was a wrestler and he went by the
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name of king tonga our Tongan and and he
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was so this is this is the late 80s when
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it was the WWF the World Wrestling
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Federation and I was right into this
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after watching WrestleMania one with
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Hulk Hogan and mr. t and I could not
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believe my eyes
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that this guy was in my driveway and I
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was in shock and I watched as he slowly
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made his way up our stairs filled the
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doorframe I've never seen our doorframe
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filled that way and he looked at me and
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he shook my hand and he is a Tongan
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thing he gave me a kiss and I was in
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shock it turns out that the WWF were
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touring all around Australia and and and
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this is so funny because Saturday
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afternoons I used to watch wrestling on
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wild world of sports and every now and
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then I'd be watching something and this
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guy king tonga he would be wrestling and
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my mum would walk past and she would say
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oh you know that's my cousin and I said
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yeah right now you know it's all
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Islander thing we're all cousins yeah
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Kazi bro yeah yeah
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yes you're mark yeah good idea that's
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that's awesome well it turns out that it
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really is and so he's not only turned up
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at our house but he's got tickets for us
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to accompany him to Festival Hall in
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Brisbane
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sit ringside and watch him take on the
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Magnificent Muraco this other man
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mountain so it is like the best day it
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is like the best day of my life and I
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get ready and and I find out that we're
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actually going to me and my dad are
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actually going to be driving him to
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festival hall so my dad's sitting
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driving he's just filled
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he's just filled that the passenger side
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it's like seeing an adult said in a a
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chair from the prep classroom you know
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you know what I mean just and he's
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sitting there and my dad I don't know
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what he was thinking but he drives and
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he pulls up right in front of Festival
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Hall there are thousands of people there
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and he just stops there and we've got to
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get out and then king tonga he puts me
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in front of him like I'm his security
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I'm 11 years old I'm like about this big
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and we walk and it's like Moses parting
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the Red Sea
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everyone and we just walked through I
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take my seat he goes and gets ready and
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and he's on the undercard so if you know
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how this works there's a main event but
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then there's all these other matches
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leading up and and he comes in and it's
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exciting the atmosphere is phenomenal
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but then all of a sudden the main event
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happens this is really what everyone's
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come for and there's this just like this
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hush that begins and then the ring
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announcer steps up and he says ladies
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and gentlemen boys and girls of all ages
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welcome to the main event introducing
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first managed by Bobby the brain Heenan
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from Los Angeles California standing 6
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foot 10 inches weighing 367 pounds Big
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John Studd and the crowd just boos this
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is the villain the crowd is booing and
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throwing popcorn and just you know
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because this guy is a what they call a
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real heel he's just an absolute villain
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and that and then all of a sudden the
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crowd starts to die down the lights dim
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and then there's a bit of music that
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plays and the ring announcer says and
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his opponents
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from Grenoble in the French Alps
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standing seven foot five inches tall
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weighing 520 pounds the 8th wonder of
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the world Andre the Giant and I'm not
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the place just erupted it went berserk
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and I have never ever seen a human being
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that large before this guy walked down
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it was like a walking Eclipse you could
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not see anything behind him or and and
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he has just he's just walked he's just
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lumbered in and this guy is huge he
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there is no words to describe it and
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actually after that after the match I
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actually got to go backstage and I got
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to meet all these guys so I'm 11 years
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old
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I think all this stuff's real I am in
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shock when I walk into the dressing room
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and there is my my uncle you know
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sitting next to the guy he's just had a
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fight with and and the same thing with
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Andre the Dryad because in my mind I
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said to my asking this question I said
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how did you guys actually arrive here
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did you have to take separate planes
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because you know the good guys and the
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bad guys because you guys would just be
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brawling everywhere and that he sort of
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didn't tell me that it was kind of
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staged and all so that's that's what I
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had in my mind and anyway
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Andre lumbers over remember I'm an 11
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years old I'm about 4 foot nothing 60
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kilos and he lumbers over and I just
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stand looking up and he looks down at me
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and he puts out his hand and it looks
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like a baseball mitt it is that big and
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he shakes my hand he takes my program he
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signs it and that was the best night of
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my life
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outside of my family stuff it was
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phenomenal it was phenomenal
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even now I reminisce about that what
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you're the old fights and that because I
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got to meet a real-life giant today I
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want to talk about the fact that there
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was another little kid that went up
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against a real giant another giant and I
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was I was thinking about this you know
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imagine if if if we were in the ring in
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a little ringside and
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announcer says look Big John Studd can't
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fight so I'm just going to put it out
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there is there anyone here who would
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like to take on Andre the Giant and I
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imagine in my mind getting up and
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walking to the stage and no one would
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believe that I'd be able to defeat him
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but the odds were even worse than that
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when the kid named David walked down the
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Valley of Elah and he took on a 9 foot 9
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giant so we're going to look at this
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because this is in 1st Samuel chapter 17
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and we're going to look at the fact that
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I really don't want to focus on the
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fight between David and Goliath that is
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a spoiler alert if you haven't read it
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David wins headshot and the big guy goes
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down it's all over it's a pretty we all
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know the story and you know that whole
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that whole phrase David and Goliath now
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is kind of it's kind of used everywhere
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in the corporate world you know someone
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takes on a major corporation or it's
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David and Goliath esque you know or it's
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the ultimate underdog story and I really
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don't want to focus on that because the
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way I see it Goliath had absolutely no
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chance he had no chance I know on the
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outside he looked huge the Bible goes
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into great detail
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remember Samuel is writing this and and
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he sets the scene and it is so picture
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as he opens up first samuel chapter 17
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and he talks about the fact that the
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Israelites and the Philistines one side
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is on one side of the mountain the other
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side is on the other and there is a
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valley in between and their champion
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Goliath out and he issues this challenge
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you know one on one come on if you guys
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win we'll be your servants if I win
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you're all going to be ours and no one
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does anything until David arrives and
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the reason why I say that David was
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always going to defeat Goliath it's
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because and this is really what I want
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to focus on tonight there were three
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fights that David had even before he
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took on Goliath and those things
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determined the fact that Goliath really
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had no chance he was a dead
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and walking because these three things
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are things that we will still face today
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in our Christian walk they are three
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fights that we all have to face and
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because David was so successful in these
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three fights Goliath that was a foregone
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conclusion Goliath was always going to
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go down he just didn't know it and so
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tonight I really want to talk about
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these three areas that we're going to
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fight in these three areas that every
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single believer must face they must take
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on in order to defeat eventually the big
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thing that maybe you might be facing and
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it might be huge it might be
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overwhelming but I'm telling you I
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believe in my heart that if you if you
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win these smaller battles the life's
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going down whatever that giant thing
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that you are intimidated about or
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overwhelmed about that thing is going to
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go down and so I want to really look at
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David's story and what happens and what
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led him to that point where he was able
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to take down Goliath and I believe that
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the first part and it's the first point
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and we read this in 1 Samuel chapter 17
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from verse 17 to 20 and the Bible says
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this it says now Jesse said to his son
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David take this ether of roasted grain
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and these 10 loaves of bread for your
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brothers and hurry to their camp take
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along these 10 cheeses to the commander
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of their unit see how your brothers are
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and bring back some assurance from them
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they are with soul and all the men of
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Israel in the Valley of Elah fighting
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against the Philistines early in the
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morning David left to the David left the
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flock in the care of a shepherd loaded
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up and set out as Jesse had directed so
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this begins at the this is this is a
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First Samuel chapter 17 what we don't
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see here is that what happens in chapter
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16 in chapter 16
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David is chosen amongst all of his
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brothers he's the youngest of eight and
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he is anointed by the prophet Samuel
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to be the next king of Israel and so
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David that happens in chapter 16 David
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goes back to looking after his sheep and
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then this happens in chapter 17 the
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battle comes it's been 40 days it's been
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40 days and then David's father says to
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David I want you to take this food and
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go see how your brothers are now the
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first fight I believe that we all need
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to face is the fight against
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faithlessness faithlessness now when I
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say faithlessness I'm talking about the
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it is the the that whole thing about
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being untrue or unfaithful to things
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that we should have an allegiance to
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those things that we should be faithful
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to but we can tend to be unfaithful and
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and this is really the point of this is
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that David was able to be faithful in
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the small things David was able to be
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faithful in the small things you see if
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you know the story when David killed
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Goliath he actually took his head off
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and I know it sounds a bit dark but it
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was actually it was actually a powerful
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symbol because in in the culture of the
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day headship always represented
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authority so if you took the head of
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something it meant I'm taking your
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authority and when he did that there
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Israelites rush the Philistines and
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defeated them and so David watch this
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David is carrying the head of a giant
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back to Jerusalem the only reason why he
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was able to carry the head of a giant
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back is because he was carrying little
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lunches to their small insignificant
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things he was willing to do and in the
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end he had a huge victory he had a huge
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victory now to be honest if that was me
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and I had just been anointed by the
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prophet Samuel now you have to
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understand Samuel is awesome the Bible
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says that no prophetic word that Samuel
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declared fell to the ground void
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everything he said came true so when
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Samuel turns up and he anoints David
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everyone
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this is going to happen Samuel does not
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miss you know he is 100% with his so
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knowing that David goes back anyway
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but if my dad had called me and said I
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want you to take this I would have said
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you know what one day I'm going to be
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king there are seven other boys there or
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maybe four because three have gone
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choose one of them what do I look like
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uber eats or delivery do you go and take
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it to someone else don't you know I'm
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going to be king one day I'm gonna be
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king I'm gonna be your king so no no you
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go tell someone else David doesn't do
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that and this is something I tell myself
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all the time you know David David was
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you know remember he was an anointed
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king he wasn't anointed to be a princess
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he wasn't a diva and because hashtag we
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are kings
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we don't hatch tag behave like queens
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[Applause]
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you know what a queen is the Queen's
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just a princess with a promotion so say
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David is sorry that offended you I'm
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talking to me I'm talking to me David is
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so faithful that he sees this small task
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you know just take this food and go and
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he doesn't he takes it and he goes and
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he has his destiny moment he has his
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destiny moment and this is the whole
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point of this big victories begin with
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small acts of faithfulness victory in
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the big things they begin with small
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acts of faithfulness passive in just
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talked about that massive miracle 5,000
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plus some scholars estimate
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approximately 10,000 people were fed
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that day you know how they were fed a
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little kid carrying lunch a little kid
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carrying lunch and often you know if
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you're ever been in church life we look
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at someone who's you know got amazing
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anointing or carrying great presents
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charisma all of that and we want that
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sort of thing we want to emulate that
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sort of thing what they're carrying you
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know where it starts carry the small
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things right where you are
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carry the little things right where we
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right where you are
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this
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is throughout all of the Bible this
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theme of being faithful with the few
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faithful with the little faithful with
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the unseen things no cameras around no
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one knows but you are faithful with the
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little things because I tell you God is
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watching God sees all of that I don't
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know if you've heard of the Sistine
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Chapel it's it's one of the most
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brilliant pieces of artwork anywhere in
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the world and it was painted by
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Michelangelo the famous painter who
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wasn't even a painter he was a sculpture
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and it was a ceiling and and this
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ceiling it depicts all of these amazing
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scenes from the book of Genesis and
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probably the most famous scene is that
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scene of David sorry of Adam and and God
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that reaching out reaching out to each
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other and it took four years four years
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to paint that and it's absolutely
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phenomenal he was commissioned to do it
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and he does it and there's a story that
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goes that there was one moment that
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Michelangelo was painting something
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right in the corner it was right in the
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corner and because of the structure of
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the ceiling and the walls
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it was absolutely he couldn't even see
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it it was obscure and yet he actually
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spent hours and a couple of days
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painting in detail this thing and one of
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his apprentices said what you even
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bother no one's going to see that and
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his response was brilliant he said God
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will see because being faithful with the
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little things in in a culture like
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elsewhere we celebrate the big things we
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celebrate huge things you know I was
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thinking about the fact that when I was
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growing up we had a basketball hoop in
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our backyard and I remember playing my
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brother playing my our friends and and
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it was always the same sort of backyard
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fantasy you know we'd come to the end
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and someone would count down the shot
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clock three two one and we would do our
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own commentary and Jordan gets the ball
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shoots and it's all over the crowd
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screams ha you know and it's that sort
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of thing we always celebrate those big
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moments because we get big react
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and it's awesome you know what we never
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ever ever fantasized about there was a
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never a time where we said okay three
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seconds on the clock loose-ball he dives
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for the ball he grabs it yeah oh look at
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that block is just said look at the
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screen is just said look at him boxing
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out for the reap no no one celebrates
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those things but it's those little
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things that actually build up to those
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big moments it's those things that build
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up to the big moments so it is so
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imperative in our fight that we fight to
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be faithful with the little things you
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know David's most famous Psalm Psalm 23
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it talks about this I think it's verse 4
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or 5 and it says yea though I walk
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through the valley of the shadow of
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death I will fear no evil for you are
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with me your rod and your staff they
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comfort me so he's walking through the
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valley do you know what the very next
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verse is you prepare a table before me
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you prepare a table for me in the midst
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of all of my enemies so look at this
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he's walking through the valley shadow
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of death there's danger enemies all
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around but there's a table prepared on
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the other side and this might be for
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someone you you you might feel like
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you're walking through something dark
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you're walking through something
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dangerous but I want to tell you God's
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already prepared the table because he
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knows you're going to get through the
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valley because he knows you're going to
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get through the valley the table is
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already set up and he says in the
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presence of all my enemies everything
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that couldn't kill you in the valley
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God's going to celebrate you in the
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tower in it in front of all of those
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people at the table so just keep walking
548
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they're just little steps they're just
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little steps just one step after the
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other it's dark no one will see just
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every morning do your devotion just
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every Sunday come to church just every
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time your rostered serve it sees little
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acts that are so
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huge so huge because you may not know
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that your victory your biggest victory
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is on the end of this in second Kings
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the prophet Elijah is in the midst of a
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famine there is this massive famine
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that's going on and and they're under
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siege as a result of that there they're
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basically sort of locked up in this some
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in this town and the Bible says that
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Elijah he declares a word and this word
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is that this time tomorrow the famine is
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going to stop
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well the Bible also goes on to say that
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there were four letters there were four
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letters outside the city and they
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basically say okay if we go back we're
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gonna die in the city of famine if we
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stay here we're gonna die of famine
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anyway why don't we just move forward
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and go down to the Syrian army's camp
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maybe they'll kill us if they kill us
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well we're gonna die anyway but maybe we
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just go down anyway because who knows
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they might spare us and you know what
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happens these for lepers so you know
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what lepers are these guys are not
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healthy so they get up and they are
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walking in the desert it's it's barren
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you know they are walking and I don't
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know how people who leper a sort of walk
585
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but I sort of envision it it's kind of
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like that
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film clip for music video for Michael
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Jackson's Thriller they're not moving
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very very very quickly they're just
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walking slowly and the Bible says that
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while they're walking while they're
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taking small steps God amplifies their
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sound to the enemy and to the enemy it
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sounds like that there are chariots
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soldiers entire armies that are rushing
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down to take over now look at this
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they're taking small steps but while
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they're taking small steps God is
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amplifying their sound they don't know
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what's going to happen they don't know
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what's going to happen in front of them
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they could be used as target practice by
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the enemy but because they're just
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taking a chance and they're just saying
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I'm going to move forward anyway and I
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feel like this is a word for someone
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that
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like I really don't know where to go
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should I go back should I stay where we
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are or should I move forward what if
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what if you just trusted God and move
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forward you know when they came to that
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camp the whole place was deserted and
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they went in and they started to raid
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the place there was so much stuff in
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there and they went back and the famine
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that's other famine ended and maybe your
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breakthrough maybe your famine are
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ending maybe your next big thing could
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be from the fact that you took small
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steps small acts small things because
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how many of you know that it ain't over
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till God says it's over and if you've
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still got a pulse it means you've still
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got a purpose God has not finished with
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you it doesn't matter how old you are or
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what's transpired just keep moving
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forward and taking those small steps
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amen
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all right so this is the second the
631
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second fight that David wins sorry back
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to the first one so the reason why David
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was able to to win that battle is
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because not only did he do that small
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thing of being faithful with delivering
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lunches but he also did the small thing
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of defending his little lambs you know
638
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his brother sort of criticized him and
639
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said why don't you look in those little
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00:27:56,620 --> 00:28:02,049
lambs and then soul says to him later
641
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you know you can't take this giant on
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you're just a kid and David explains
643
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that he's beaten bears and lions
644
00:28:05,770 --> 00:28:10,809
defending little lambs so because he's
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been defending Lambs and delivering
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00:28:10,809 --> 00:28:15,940
lunches that qualifies him to take and
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bid this beat this giant compare that to
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the fact that the reigning king the
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reigning king now remember he's there
650
00:28:20,830 --> 00:28:25,660
he's there he hears Goliath he hears all
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00:28:23,919 --> 00:28:27,760
of this and he doesn't move even though
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he's bigger the Bible says he is head
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and shoulders taller than everyone else
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he's big himself but he doesn't move and
655
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it's because he failed on two occasions
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two occasions where he was instructed do
657
00:28:37,660 --> 00:28:41,980
not do anything in this battle until the
658
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prophet Samuel comes and offers a
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sacrifice under pressure he falters he
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00:28:44,980 --> 00:28:49,220
offers it and Samuel says God's taken
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00:28:48,010 --> 00:28:51,740
this away from you
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gods found another man and then the
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other time where he was instructed to
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kill all the Amalekites and all of their
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livestock and he keeps the king and he
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00:29:00,950 --> 00:29:05,570
keeps the best of the livestock and the
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Saturn Samuel the Prophet turns up and
668
00:29:05,570 --> 00:29:10,040
he says you've failed again and God is
669
00:29:08,420 --> 00:29:12,110
going to give the kingdom to someone
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00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:14,200
better than you because he says behold
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00:29:12,110 --> 00:29:17,450
it is better to obey than to sacrifice
672
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:19,550
so the reason why Saul does not move to
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00:29:17,450 --> 00:29:22,250
take on Goliath he's already failed he's
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00:29:19,550 --> 00:29:25,730
failed this fight so the next fight is
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the fight against fear it says in verse
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eight to eleven David reached the camp
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as the army was going out to its battle
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positions shouting the war cry Israel
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00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:37,400
and the Philistines were drawing up
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00:29:34,820 --> 00:29:39,110
their lines facing each other David left
681
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,360
the things with the keeper of supplies
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00:29:39,110 --> 00:29:43,730
ran to the battle lines and asked his
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00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:45,650
brothers how they were as he was talking
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00:29:43,730 --> 00:29:48,080
with them Goliath the Philistine
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00:29:45,650 --> 00:29:50,540
champion from Gath stepped out from his
686
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:52,000
lines and shouted his usual defiance and
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00:29:50,540 --> 00:29:54,410
David heard it
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00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:57,800
whenever the years who I saw the man
689
00:29:54,410 --> 00:30:03,280
they all fled from his from him in great
690
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:05,330
fear so they fled from him in great fear
691
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:09,110
because we're running out of time let me
692
00:30:05,330 --> 00:30:12,350
just speed this up okay what you are
693
00:30:09,110 --> 00:30:15,500
fearful of you shouldn't and I know that
694
00:30:12,350 --> 00:30:18,920
sounds easier said than done but the
695
00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:23,390
appearance of adversity is not to
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00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:26,630
destroy you it's to deploy you when
697
00:30:23,390 --> 00:30:29,060
Goliath steps out David is not afraid
698
00:30:26,630 --> 00:30:32,510
because he understands that Goliath
699
00:30:29,060 --> 00:30:35,180
turning up is going to be his promotion
700
00:30:32,510 --> 00:30:37,490
he's already been anointed king so it
701
00:30:35,180 --> 00:30:41,150
does not matter what you are facing how
702
00:30:37,490 --> 00:30:43,130
big it is you are not the Bible says we
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00:30:41,150 --> 00:30:45,200
are hard pressed on every side but not
704
00:30:43,130 --> 00:30:49,040
crushed we are perplexed but not in
705
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:51,050
despair we are persecuted but not we and
706
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:54,830
then it goes on to say we are cast down
707
00:30:51,050 --> 00:30:57,020
but not destroyed it has not turned up
708
00:30:54,830 --> 00:30:59,420
to destroy you it's turned up to deploy
709
00:30:57,020 --> 00:31:02,630
you God is going to use that thing that
710
00:30:59,420 --> 00:31:06,289
you may be fearful of to transport you
711
00:31:02,630 --> 00:31:08,360
to your next place of promotion you know
712
00:31:06,289 --> 00:31:10,970
the story of Jonah God instructs him to
713
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:13,220
do something and he runs away he's in
714
00:31:10,970 --> 00:31:15,470
this ship and and there's a massive
715
00:31:13,220 --> 00:31:17,570
storm and he tells him it's it's my
716
00:31:15,470 --> 00:31:20,240
fault throw me over so he gets thrown
717
00:31:17,570 --> 00:31:24,080
over in this storm and then all of a
718
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:28,309
sudden during a dinner dinner dinner
719
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:30,500
it's a giant fish but it comes not to
720
00:31:28,309 --> 00:31:32,960
take him out it doesn't come to
721
00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:35,690
terminate him it came to transport him
722
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:37,850
it came to take him back to where he was
723
00:31:35,690 --> 00:31:39,409
going so you should never ever be
724
00:31:37,850 --> 00:31:42,140
fearful of that thing that might be
725
00:31:39,409 --> 00:31:44,840
overwhelming you because God can use
726
00:31:42,140 --> 00:31:47,799
that so it can deploy you to your next
727
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:52,370
to your next place to your next area and
728
00:31:47,799 --> 00:31:56,270
finally the last point is this it says
729
00:31:52,370 --> 00:31:58,130
in 1st Samuel 17 verse 8 Goliath stood
730
00:31:56,270 --> 00:32:00,110
and he shouted to the ranks of Israel
731
00:31:58,130 --> 00:32:00,500
why do you come out and line up for
732
00:32:00,110 --> 00:32:02,630
battle
733
00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:05,450
am I not a Philistine and are you not
734
00:32:02,630 --> 00:32:09,409
the servants of Saul choose a man and
735
00:32:05,450 --> 00:32:13,640
have him come down to me so this happens
736
00:32:09,409 --> 00:32:15,140
40 days 40 days goliath comes out am I
737
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:18,260
not a Philistine and are you not the
738
00:32:15,140 --> 00:32:20,750
servants of Saul day 1 he comes back and
739
00:32:18,260 --> 00:32:24,620
we're not a Philistine servants of Saul
740
00:32:20,750 --> 00:32:27,409
am I not a Philistine servants of Saul
741
00:32:24,620 --> 00:32:29,570
servants of Saul servants of Saul for
742
00:32:27,409 --> 00:32:30,200
forty days that's what they hear morning
743
00:32:29,570 --> 00:32:33,049
and night
744
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:35,150
80 times servants of Saul and so these
745
00:32:33,049 --> 00:32:37,370
guys in their mind that's all they hear
746
00:32:35,150 --> 00:32:40,490
yeah you're right we're servants of Saul
747
00:32:37,370 --> 00:32:42,820
and Sora's not moving so we're even
748
00:32:40,490 --> 00:32:46,340
worse than him we're servants of Saul
749
00:32:42,820 --> 00:32:49,760
but then all of a sudden this kid comes
750
00:32:46,340 --> 00:32:52,640
out and he comes out and he interrupts
751
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:55,789
us he interrupts his playlist and listen
752
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:58,669
to what he says David are cement
753
00:32:55,789 --> 00:33:00,860
standing by we'll be done for the man
754
00:32:58,669 --> 00:33:03,080
who kills this Philistine and removes
755
00:33:00,860 --> 00:33:05,090
this disgrace from Israel who is this
756
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:07,669
uncircumcised Philistine that he should
757
00:33:05,090 --> 00:33:10,390
defy the armies of the Living God so in
758
00:33:07,669 --> 00:33:13,100
the most epic battle seen ever created
759
00:33:10,390 --> 00:33:16,250
the Goliath is Goliath is out here
760
00:33:13,100 --> 00:33:18,650
making his challenge and David steps out
761
00:33:16,250 --> 00:33:21,260
and it is one of the most epic speeches
762
00:33:18,650 --> 00:33:25,760
and he steps out and he looks at the men
763
00:33:21,260 --> 00:33:30,950
and he says sons of Scotland you've come
764
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:35,000
to fight as free men no doesn't he steps
765
00:33:30,950 --> 00:33:37,580
out and he says my name is Marcus
766
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:40,490
Aurelius commander of the armies of the
767
00:33:37,580 --> 00:33:42,920
north general Lille Felix lead no no he
768
00:33:40,490 --> 00:33:46,940
doesn't he doesn't really he steps out
769
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:51,740
and he says err Bombay welcome to
770
00:33:46,940 --> 00:33:54,320
forever no no he doesn't do any of those
771
00:33:51,740 --> 00:33:58,010
they're all epic battle scenes but he
772
00:33:54,320 --> 00:34:00,860
steps out and he says who is this
773
00:33:58,010 --> 00:34:05,290
uncircumcised Philistine that he should
774
00:34:00,860 --> 00:34:09,950
listen defy the armies of the Living God
775
00:34:05,290 --> 00:34:13,399
so David flips the script you are not
776
00:34:09,950 --> 00:34:17,149
servants of Saul you are armies of the
777
00:34:13,399 --> 00:34:21,250
Living God you are not a servant of Saul
778
00:34:17,149 --> 00:34:24,250
you are an army of the Living God
779
00:34:21,250 --> 00:34:27,980
because David knew that your identity
780
00:34:24,250 --> 00:34:31,010
will determine your itinerary who you
781
00:34:27,980 --> 00:34:33,500
are will determine where you go and it
782
00:34:31,010 --> 00:34:35,360
was never to sit back and it was never
783
00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:37,760
to be scared and it was never to stay
784
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:40,429
weak it was always to move forward and
785
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:41,919
to advance because you are the army of
786
00:34:40,429 --> 00:34:44,590
the Living God
787
00:34:41,919 --> 00:34:47,090
you're the army of the Living God and
788
00:34:44,590 --> 00:34:50,360
this is what David was doing he was
789
00:34:47,090 --> 00:34:52,730
defeating he was defeating the last
790
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:56,120
fight and it was against familiarity and
791
00:34:52,730 --> 00:34:58,460
it is the familiarity of what the enemy
792
00:34:56,120 --> 00:35:01,280
has been whispering to you and telling
793
00:34:58,460 --> 00:35:03,530
you and lying to you about your identity
794
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:05,780
because he knows if he can get you to
795
00:35:03,530 --> 00:35:08,390
believe something else about you he's
796
00:35:05,780 --> 00:35:10,730
going to disrupt your progress and he's
797
00:35:08,390 --> 00:35:12,770
going to keep you back but every time
798
00:35:10,730 --> 00:35:15,200
God steps on the scene he always tells
799
00:35:12,770 --> 00:35:18,890
people who they are Gideon you are a
800
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:21,680
mighty warrior even to his own son Jesus
801
00:35:18,890 --> 00:35:23,510
he said this is my beloved son and yet
802
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:26,690
when he's in the wilderness that is a
803
00:35:23,510 --> 00:35:29,810
very thing the enemy attacks if you are
804
00:35:26,690 --> 00:35:33,080
the son of God if you are the son of God
805
00:35:29,810 --> 00:35:35,480
- Oh seeds but your identity is not in
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00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:37,100
anything you can do or anything that can
807
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happen to your identity is in your
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relationship to God and this is so
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important that we understand our fight
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against familiarity because familiarity
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is a beast familiarity will take you out
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and it will hold and and it's not just
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being familiar with ourselves but it's
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also being familiar with God so let me
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just finish with this look at this this
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is in the Gospel of Mark chapter 4 the
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Bible says that Jesus and his disciples
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are on a boat and there's a windstorm
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and they think they're going to die and
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Jesus gets up and he slays this storm he
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slays it with the word they get to the
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other side they meet a man with a legion
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of demons Jesus casts the demons out
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they go back to the other side
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a woman with a chronic illness for 12
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years reaches out touches him and
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instantly she's healed Jesus goes to
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another man's house raises her dead his
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dead daughter so chapter 4 Jesus slays a
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storm chapter 5 Jesus casts out a legion
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of demons he heals two people almost at
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the same time one has chronic illness
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the other is death that's chapter 5 so
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you can see that the trajectory of the
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miracles are just sort of going up and
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up but then we come to mark chapter 6
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and you know what happens Jesus goes
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home to Nazareth and he is he marvels at
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the fact that they are so familiar with
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him because they say isn't this Mary's
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boy isn't this Joseph's son
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we know him who does he think he is and
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the Bible says that he could do no
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miracles in that place because of
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familiarity so familiarity is a fight
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that we need to take on not just for
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ourselves but who we say God is it's who
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we say God is so in closing this is what
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I want - this is what I want to propose
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to you you know the Bible says in Acts
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chapter 13 that David did all of the
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purposes of God in his generation he did
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all of them what would your life look
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like if you took the fight on against
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faithlessness against fear against
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familiarity to defeat these small things
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on the way to defeating the big things
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what would your life to look like if you
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serve the purposes to your generation